Sharad Pawar resigned as MCA president

Sharad Pawar resigned

MCA president Sharad Pawar is the first high-profile Indian cricket administrator to step down in the wake of the Lodha Committee's recommendations that made him disqualified to continue in the post.

The Lodha Committee, among other things, had recommended that BCCI and association office members should not be more then 70 years, should not hold office for more than nine years and should not be ministers or civil servants. Sharad Pawar, 76, has been MCA president since 2001 and and also a politician.

Sharad Pawar resigned his post at an MCA committee meeting in Mumbai on Saturday. "He has submitted his resignation to me, honouring the Supreme Court judgment," Mumbai Cricket Association(MCA) joint-secretary PV Shetty told ESPNcricinfo. "We have taken his resignation letter, but we have not accepted it or acted on that till the next meeting."